₦airaland Forum

gberra:
You always wanted Everything.
You want out YET pressing for a #1trillion in damages plus Add-ons in assets & other tangibles from the FG. ..Na only you outta 300 sabi better thing?

IPob will fail.

Me?

I'm not 'IPOB' but I understand why they want what they want.

They want their own country, they're not asking anyone for anything but the right to self-determinatio. They're not asking for money.

As to the 1 trillion on damages - how much money is being spent on reconstruction in the north east to repair self-inflicted damage?

samincredible44:
let's not be quick to judge he might be watching his weight

Lol

gberra:
IPobs are greedy Buffoon.

Greedy how? Because they want their own country?

How is that greedy?

Is that really Buhari?

I wish he wasn't president but I actually feel bad for the man.

Sterix10:
I don't like this topic but when I read wat d man said completely,i understood d message,am not in support of IPOB or divided Nigerian,i think d solution is dat we need to amend our constitution,divide the country politically into north,South,East and West,Let Presidential candidates at times b from the north,then d next south,den East,finally west repeatedly.Unless their won't b Peace,i mourn for Nigeria,seriously I mourn for Nigeria but don't worry,vote for me in d future,i will change Nigeria

That's a foolish proposition.

Divide the country politically but completely weaken the FG so that it does not matter where the president is from.

Simple question - has Nigeria ever moved forward under a northern president?

Why should the rest of the country be subjected to the kind of awful leadership that has made the north such a disgrace?

LorDBolton:
What do you stand to gain from nigerias break up?

What is gained in staying anchored to the useless north?

Opakan2:
in your small mind now you've made sense..

The problem with your people is greed, you can't eat your cake and still have it.

While you're here forming intelligent, your politicians are running to APC for crumbs from Federal govt. but you'll cry about yorubas as if you came to this world together

Nonsense! No more juicy position for igbos like it was under GEJ. Everyone to your tent now

As if Igbos are the only greedy people in Nigeria?

Why do idiots keep repeating that nonsense?

Was Abacha Igbo? Is OBJ Igbo?

And what 'juicy positions' are you speaking of? And why should a community care about one person in a position of authority? Surely the smart thing should be for a call for greater regional/state autonomy and absolute control of resources?

Opakan2:
I get your point quite clear.. but the money flow to states wasn't there

GEJ and his pdp goons cornered monies meant for over 150 million Nigerians.. At a point when oil was selling high, we were borrowing, salaries weren't paid. Nigeria was practically at a stand still
It's so sad such a thing still happen in this age and time. God rest them

We shouldn't be talking about oil in a nation with 180 million that is producing 2 million barrels per day. That is not enough to build a nation. What we should be asking is why other parts of the country are not producing anything to match the income that comes from that resource.

Oil is not the only means of making money, nor is it the only resource at Nigeria's disposal.

As to your claim that Nigeria was at a stand still, that is completely untrue. The parts of the country that are progressive were upgrading their infrastructure and had plans to do more.

prettyboi1989:
the best solution is to build a great wall that will cut off the north from the west east and south just like the wall america is planning to build across the border of mexico. the north can continue to be backward with their religious sentiments and underdevelopment while we progress

Will you save the Middle Belt too or leave them to be ravaged by the Fulanis?

Opakan2:
GEJ stole the money they could have used to fix the high tension pole.. he is to blame
He is a blood sucking demon

It's a long way down from president to people on the outskirts of Calabar who decided to illegally construct a shack to watch football.

They shouldn't have built such a shabby structure. This has nothing to do with GEJ.

There are plenty of reputable, safely built structures in which one can watch football, especially in Calabar, on Marian Road alone there are at least 4 venues where one can watch football safely. This place should be bulldozed as should the other illicit venues that have been erected with no regard for safety.

franchizy:
If GEJ had built a comfortable viewing centre for his people in south, all these would not have happened.

May the souls of the departed Rest peacefully in the Bossom of the Lord.

I hope you're joking.

back2sender:
The adverse poverty and suffering in Nigeria today is caused by looting of the country during GeJ tenure.
He turned a blind eye to the massive looting taking place and i see this as a strategy to cripple the incoming government and make it difficult for the government to jump start the economy.
Massive Money was stolen from the system and hidden in graves, houses, soakway, water tank etc rather than been spent in the system to oil the economy.
NIGERIA WILL HAVE BETTER MANAGED THE RECESSION IF WE HAD SAVINGS (LOOTED FUNDS) DESPITE THE FALLING CRUDE OIL PRICES OUR ONLY MEANS OF REVENUE.

What are you talking about? It was under GEJ that favored ministers were sacked because they were caught up in so-called 'scandals'.

Meanwhile OBJ who served two terms in office is busy spending millions of dollars on a library and no one is batting an eyelid. No one asks how he financed his farm. No one asks what happened to the billions of dollars supposedly spent on resolving the electricity issue, rather it's GEJ that you want to talk about. If GEJ has a case to answer then let him answer it but let us deal with the biggest crooks.

If you attend this man's church you are a bozo.

gbegemaster:
Here let me help you:

Cambridge: used to tell someone that they should deal with something more bravely

Oxford: Be brave or tough enough to deal with an unpleasant situation.

How does one be 'brave' when someone is abusing their position at work and jeopardizing your livelihood?

How does someone be 'brave' when someone is spreading malicious rumors to undermine your position?

Your call for 'bravery' is a call for injustice and impunity to reign.

gbegemaster:
What's wrong with you? You should ask what it means to man up since you also don't understand.

That's a simpleton's phrase.

What does such a foolish term mean?

gbegemaster:
A man complaining of being sexually harassed by a woman, should be apprehended and forced to change his gender.

I keep saying that before you start to understand a woman, she has already analyzed and placed you appropriately. She knows the type of men she can try those type of games with.

The simple solution is to man up.

That is a simpleton's analysis.

If a woman has a closer relationship with the superiors of that institution or establishment then she can/may use that to cause problems for that man at work.

She may also lie and claim that it was the man who was pestering her.

agabusta:
The people that took over in the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Nigeria Intelligence Agency are civil servants. They are not political appointees.

They are the most senior civil servants. And the most senior was requested to take over in Acting capacity. If he bypassed the most senior now, it will lead to another uproar.

It still looks odd that a region with such a well documented problem with illiteracy has so many people in senior positions in the civil service.

It simply makes no sense.

What is OP talking about? A lot of people use tiles for their flooring and if they really want to show off they use marble.

I can't recall the last time I went into a home that had carpeting everywhere - no one is decorating their homes in that way anymore.

All these useless northern politicians have so much money and yet there are people in their states who are literally starving to death who will not hold these idiots to account.

vantage001:
Dey should drop small thing for the families.
A club that pays Pogba 350,000 pounds a week can afford to commiserate with 100,000 pounds to each of the family.
I mean, what is the point of being a die-hard fan then, if the money no fit ever flow reach your side?

Why should they hand out free money for gross stupidity?

Do you know how bad the electrical wiring must have been for this to happen?

Or what kind of ramshackle venue this must have been? I'm sure that you could tell before walking in that the venue was unsafe but because of the culture of tolerating nonsense these people walked in to a death trap.

If they were in Calabar there are plenty of places to watch a game where you won't be in harms way. These people took their lives into their own hands and it ended unfortunately for them.

Hopefully none of them had children. This is Darwin's law at work.

ajoskele:
Good one MU.

In saner climes, officials of the disco firm, the football house and even those local govt would be behind bar by now.

But it is Nigeria. Anything goes.

Why should the disco firm be prosecuted?

It is the owner of the property who is responsible.

And whoever did the electrical work.

People shouldn't tolerate so much informal, unregulated building. Such venues are not be patronized by intelligent, rational human beings.

All these illegal, informal buildings need to be taken down.

Especially those providing commercial services.

Either build it properly or don't build it at all.

gnykelly:
I said God not god let start from there.

Why are you ducking the question?

gnykelly:
God never fails

If god never fails why is this man jobless, why are they living in a one bedroom apartment and why are they begging for alms?

omohayek:
There is a lot more to building a quality institution of higher education than simply erecting a few structures and inviting foreigners to come and teach in them - and that's even assuming the most qualified foreigners could be enticed to come to Nigeria in the first place (why would they, when they can work in much nicer places, where education is valued for its own sake?).

First you have to deal with the fact that Nigerian universities have been wrecked by the same issues that have weakened everything else run by the Nigerian government - petty and grand thieving of funds, subversion of objective standards of evaluation through demands for bribes (or "payment" through sex), the promotion of the less qualified ahead of their betters in the name of "federal character", or "man know man", etc. All of these things undermine the morale of both teachers and students, and the few remaining who are truly serious about teaching or studying are made to seem like fools through all the nonsense around them. Why work hard when all your mates are getting ahead by paying off their professors or sleeping with them, especially when your employment prospects won't be any better for it when you graduate?

Insisting that students should stay in Nigeria rather than going abroad makes as little sense as insisting that Nigerian expats come back home to work instead of working in America or Europe. No matter how hardworking and talented you may be as an individual, you still need the right environment to achieve your best, and that environment simply doesn't exist in Nigeria - and simply budgeting more money won't be enough to make it exist, not when the negative mindsets and perverse incentives are allowed to remain intact.

Then you hire the right people and ensure that there are checks and balances, a reward and deficit system based on being productive. You don't keep enriching others in the belief that you can shortcut development.

'It's not rocket science' as Fashola would have said pre-election.

It was that way once before, we cannot continue to be defeatist and refuse to invest into our own institutions. Afterall, the private universities such as Covenant have been doing it.

You talk about 'negative mindsets' but look at your post - you are a part of the problem.


P.S.
Where are these places where education is appreciated 'for its own sake'?

Nigerian police are a result of the way in which people in Nigeria are raised.

Stop beating up your children and you will find that the next generation have less hostility for their fellow man.

It's today that these people finally woke up?

Have they not been slaughtering in the middle belt for years?

Rett0:
Still an assumption that they used it.

Unnatural Google is your friend.
The most common form of multiples are twins. Statistically 90% of all multiple births are made up of twins and the remaining 10% being shared between triplets, quadruplets and more.https://m.huggies.com.au/childbirth/multiple-births/quadruplets

It's a guess based upon logic, reason and awareness - qualities lacking from this couple's behavior.

Anyway, here's an article to soothe your mind - http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/12/04/248795369/fertility-drugs-not-ivf-are-top-cause-of-multiple-births

Rett0:
The point is they are provided with free schools, healthcare and welfare.

But food is not free.

Clothing is not free.

Nappies are not free.

Transport is not free.

Their homes have to be heated in most of the western world - that is not free.

They may or may not be eligible for subsidized housing, if both parents are in the home (and are physically able) they won't be eligible for free housing.

The money that they get from the example that you gave is peanuts considering the real costs of living and raising a family. According to the link that you provided new parents in the UK receive a one off payment of £1000. That money will evaporate within a couple of weeks if you have one newborn, not to speak of five.

Bants:
So you go another country and you complain about their food why didnt you pack your own...never been to ghana but i have been to places were they dont put chilli in their food and they eat basmati rice(which i hate)..as long as you have a good experience

Are you talking about Kenya?

What's wrong with basmati rice?

Rett0:
All assumptions....
Lots of our parents had multiples without any fertility enhancement...
Let's learn to reason like learned people....
There's nothing strange here...
Fertility drugs are pricey and I doubt they can afford it.

Twins, not quintuplets and quadruplets. This is a completely unnatural chain of events.

You don't find it odd how it happens in a society that places such an emphasis on new life whilst not taking care of those already in existence? Why is this not more common in societies with better regulated healthcare industries?

Fertility drugs are not pricey, clomiphene is less than $40. There are probably others that are even cheaper.

Rett0:
Not true. Get your facts.
Doesn't apply to responsible persons with degrees.
I'm 100% sure when I'm talking about multiple assistance. Especially a special case like this.

You said responsible but this is not responsible. Misusing fertility treatment is not a sign of responsible behavior.

And a degree is not a sign of being responsible - there are lots of single mothers in the western world who either have degrees or are getting degrees. All this despite the fact that children raised in single mother households are invariably at a social-economic disadvantage.

What is it that you're sure on?